Oops, sorry Tobias, your reply must have appeared while I was typing mine :oops: Well, last time I looked I didn't yet have exclusive rights to answer here, so no need to apologize ;) In fact, your answer mentions the Technical Guide and the second screen - which mine didn't. I think it's always be...

I am currently debugging Stellaris - was published in in QL User June 1987 I have OCR-ed it and now I am correcting the mistakes - and also trying to correct some bugs in the original code. The first and most important problem I have encountered is the procedure: DEFine PROCedure ka(a): POKE 98403,...

There is no way to get a working keyboard when you decide to ignore the PS/2 key release codes - you won't get the modifier keys (CTRL, ALT, SHIFT) working properly, and a held down key will either auto-repeat forever or not at all.

I have been looking at some of the older QL World magazine listings, it looks to me, that they do not seem to understand the Superbasic language. For example, use of NEXT instead of END FOR, the EXIT statement , they usual use GO TO to exit a REPeat loop. Could some of this listing have started off...

The hardest thing here is trying to find those keyboard tail connectors - those particular sizes seem the hardest to source... TME in Poland have them. https://www.tme.eu/en/katalog/connectors-ffc-fpc-2-54mm_112938/?visible_params=412%2C2%2C6%2C135%2C419%2C413%2C11%2C1247%2C22%2C32%2C425%2C2555&...

vanpeebles wrote:Are we getting chips too?

Nah. Potatoes have been cancelled.

RalfR wrote:Hmm, is it a fast or slow external memory?

See last page of the manual Alain has provided.

Peter wrote:Back on topic: Currently a QL mainboard replacement leads the poll. That surprises me, as it involves opening the QL, removing the Original mainboard, tinkering with internal cables etc.

That poll looks to me rather like "everyone wants everything"

Well, there's reasons why you would want to run QXL on a multi-tasking OS. (Like <ALT>-tabbing between SMSQ/E and the PC's native OS. It's just nice to be able to file-transfer over a working Ethernet in the background while working with SMSQ/E in the foreground). It is, however, a bad idea to do th...

Well, there's been a bit of development in the ARM world during the last 30 years....

Just like Windows 10 applications wouldn't work on a 1990 DOS PC